Friday 6th March 2026

Opinion

We need summer re-sits

Desmond Weisenberg discusses the impact of Oxford's lack of summer re-sits

Course culling is a threat to us all

Education is valuable for its own sake, Rampant course culls are the result of wrongly boiling it down to economic value.

Oxford’s poverty porn addiction

It exists in the overly sympathetic sighs of ‘solidarity’, the overexaggeration of comparatively minor and mundane inconveniences

Oxford is making you childish

With rooms cleaned, meals made, and jobs banned, Oxford students fail to experience true independence. Is it any wonder we're so childish?

Protest? What protest?

Charlotte Clark discusses the increasing importance of social media in the way we access news

Oxford the second-most expensive university for freshers?

Stan Lalanne argues that data from HSBC’s recent cost of living calculation can be misleading

The tragedy of young suicide

Emma Davies discusses the inadequacy of current mental health provisions for our most vulnerable young people.

Tackling Gender Inequality: Feminist Parties

Tom Robinson considers the merits of Sweden's Feminist Initiative

Theatre etiquette: necessary or needless?

Falling standards of behaviour in British theatres is a concerning issue, but one not entirely clear-cut, argues Will Obeney

The NUS and Alcohol: A Toxic Mix

Tom Carter argues that, with their new anti-binge drinking campaign, the NUS are as out of touch as ever

The app which ‘democratises’ the party playlist

Guests fighting over which One Direction track to play? Not anymore. Zaeem Bhanji talks to Nick Gerard, co-founder of the revolutionary social music app, Jam.

I, too?

Tjoa Shze Hui asks just how far racial campaigns at Oxford are really relevant to the international student community

Interview: Laura Watson

Niamh McIntyre talks to Laura Watson, head of the English Collective of Prostitutes, about decriminalization and sex workers' safety

Yo ho ho and a battle against harsh copyright laws

Luke Barratt on the witch-hunt of The Pirate Bay at the hands of big business

Should alleged rapists be given anonymity until charged?

Nick Mutch and Niamh McIntyre discuss the consequences of a potential move towards greater anonymity for those accused of rape.

The Ben Sullivan case has exposed our victim blaming culture

Recent comments in the media reveal a serious and disturbing truth about society's attitudes to rape, argues OUSU Women's Campaign Officer Lucy Delaney

Interview: Julian Huppert

Nick Mutch talks drugs and coalition politics with Julian Huppert, Liberal Democrat MP for Cambridge

Interview: John Rentoul

Nick Mutch talks Blair, Thatcher and Journalism with The Independent on Sunday's chief political commentator John Rentoul

Interview: Sir Roderic Lyne

George Greenwood talks about Russia's future with Sir Roderic Lyne, former British Ambassador to the Russian Federation

Should the academic calendar be reorganised?

Luke Barratt and Rachel Dobbs consider the benefits and disadvantages of summertime exams and short terms in Oxford

OUSU’s new election regulations risk fairness

David Bagg argues that OUSU’s new election regulations lose fairness, accessibility and simplicity, and calls for OUSU to think again about these changes

Killing the Mockingbird

Isaac Goodwin looks beyond the media sensationalism surrounding Michael Gove's English syllabus changes

Interview: The Last Lib Dem MEP

Cherwell caught up with Catherine Bearder, the Liberal Democrats' lone surviving MEP, shortly after they were wiped out across Britain at the European elections on 22 May

University’s harassment policy reforms can only be good news

The updated policy should be celebrated, and has long been neccesary in the fight against sexual violence at university

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